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'Phey are. on the Pan “Ara night flight to Caracas; three
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paranoid: ‘they are,” says Branch.-“Our friends in
* Washingtoa- used ‘to. ‘be simple’ Journalists. and policy ~
- analysts, 'Now they” are three-pay-vhone men. That
means you can’t call thera without using three pay
~phones. You call them up and all they'll say is ‘phone
number ore.’ “Then they go to pay phone number one
and you, call them again. Then they ask you “for the

* :number of another pay phone ne near yours, and they call

.youon that one” ..~ ;
“What do you talk about?”
-*“Things ‘like p pay phones and letter bombs and wheth-
.er the Feds. ‘can be trusted. The last time I called they
told me we would be walkirig into four nests, of known
killers: the ‘Cuban exiles in Venezuela, the Venezuelan
“secret polica, the C. LA. ond the Chilean- secret police.”

‘How. two mild- mannered reporters.
- trail of a Washington bomber,
~Jandéd in Caracas and ran afoul of the .
*:.." Venezuelan secret service, warring © -
“Cuban terrorists, the Miami police, the State
Department, the C.I.A., the F.BJ.. -
and the most dangerous man alive —all
~ this, and their mothers didn’t know
-adamn thing about it * ..- ..

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“us.”

-is. always that the situation is-toa complicated for |
words. “Tell me,” Rothchild says gravely, “did you fell .
your mother you were going to Veneruea?” _- a
_ Branch squirms at the cruel question. He wants to;
appear as knowledgesble and confident as possible, be-
cause he haa dragged Rothchild into this adventure on
less than a day’s notice. “No, I didn’t tei! her,” he.ad- -
mits. “It's too complicated. But I think we'l! only have —
one point of denger.” . ne a
"When's the point of danger?™ -
: “Well, we may get into the prison | and get o our an-
" swers,” Branch replies, “or we may get them from peo -
ple in the Venezuelan government. Either way, we'll
know who did the murders and who paid the killers _
anc what other murders they've done. That's what we
hope, anyway. If we get that information, we'll be hot
We'll have to phoze it out of

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the way Branch reels off the life histories of all the -",
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a oo pranch looks out the airplane window and pictures
Orlando Letelier lying in the middle of Massachusetts
t Avenue, his legs blown off at tha thigh, his torso pul-~
2 verized, detectives all around. On ‘the curb nearby sat.”
his passenger Ronni Mofitt, her eyes frozen, holding |
her throat, The bomb in Letelier’s car had blown’a
stiver of metal through Ronni Moffitt’s carotid artery,
and she was drowning in her own blood. Her husband
sat nearby," suffering from shock, watching ‘his wife
. die. She was twenty-five. ‘The killers were the kind of
’: people who would machine-gun a whole crowd of people -

in a public square just to hit their mark. They ~
‘- wouldn’t care about the others. Ronni Moffitt could just ~

as easily have been half the people Branch knew in
-Washiagton. The next day Jerry Ford rede right over -
the bloody spots in the roxd- on his way to a reception
for the presicent of Liberia; he.never said a word
about Washington's first gangiand-style political as”

sassination. Unwise to. talk about it, especially if the © .
ment as Inclin drifts back ta her seat. Jesus Christ, —

force behind the murders is most likely the govern---
ment of: {Chile . The ‘military junta there’ overthrew
- Salvador “Allende with a- big bedst from the CLA,
which is ‘still thick 23 thieves with the geherals. Le-:
telier™ was ‘ambassador to the United States ‘under “AK.
lende, then. foreiga affairs minister, interior minister _

“substarice for sabotage i in, the war, against Castro, and”
thousands of Cubans were trained ia its use. Branch”

. The three work out « way to mike contact in Caracas.

‘are two young Latin men in the back with neatly |:

guess.” Itis Hilda | n, a reporter for The Alieai ,
News, standing in the aiste, looking down al us, She a
is a specialist on Latin terrorism in Miami, .
“Looks like it,” says Hranch, shrugging, So muck for
the secret trip. Yet he is inctined to trust Trelin, even ©
thoggh he an! Pothchitd had met her only that day, -
while going thruugh clips at the morgue of the Neves.

Braceh is embarrassed at being a Jittle reserved.
Inclan ia candid, her face cheerful and open, .
\Inclin‘leans over und whispers, “Listen, I think you :
“Should be careful. There’s something strenge going on.
This Right is crawling with cops and Prosecutors: from, .

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Mismi” 0-2 ee
. Branch and Rothchild: turn their. heads in unison,
and their necks sink down into their shoulders. There .:2

trimmed beards, unisex hairdos and brightly colored +
shirts, There aré several men in the front who do not ~~
look like ordinary passengers. Rothehild decides there
might not be any ordinary passengers...
-- “What are they doing here?" Branch aaks ‘buntly,
“Who knows?" says Inclan. “I know these guys from

Miami, They give me tips-sometimes. But now they -j. -

“aren't giving me the time of day. I don’t understand
them, so I'm going to act just like they are. I don't:
“think you should_ let them jn on what you're up. to, :

either.” wae Depth? os
i “Those cops ‘ara ~ Cubans, aren't they?” Branch asks. |
~!

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“Inclin nods. Branch worries. Cubans on the Miami
“police force are a strange lot, he has heard. The tops
want to infiltrate Cuban terrorist groups and .drug-
- running organizations, but sometimes it turns out that
the terrorists and drug runnera are infiltrating the |

cops. - Saye: : aa ele
Branch ana Rothehild “exchange signs of bewilders :

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John,” Branch mutters. “f figured we'd & in for some
scrapes, but { never thought it would start before we
even pot there.” Then he’s all business. “I've got to
give you a quick briefing on cur maia man while we
{ have the chance. We may not, have as much leisure
time as we expected,” :

, : Branch pulls down their dinner trays and spreads out
a pile of notes and news clippings. Then he pulls out a
police mug shot. “Meet Orlundo Bosch,” he suys.

Rothchild stares incredulously at a porcine Cuban
man with a thin moustache and thick lips. “He looks ;
like the headmaster of a military school.” .

. “I know,” Branch says, “but he’s a kil'er. He's also. xtabs
a pediatrician. This whole thing’s like that—yin and = John Kothehitt Hilda inetan

‘ a yang, Boston Strangler and Mad Hatter ail mixed up.” © .-.- :- fae a Z
* | -Branch eyes the mass of clippings and notes, wonder- - Miami harbor. ‘he got ten} years, but he w was Srcled

"ing where to begia. “It would take all night to go fn 1972. That brings us to his international period.” ~ 3
throug what I've heard about Bosch, so i'l get you. Branch picks up one particular clip and holds it in ‘
“up to Letelier' as quick ay I can ‘for now, The’ back: ., readiness. “Bosch went underground two years after -
as ground is simple: Bosch. has- been a political terrorist— ‘his parole and the pace of Miami bombings escalated. -
. + -What they call an action man—ever since the Inte For- _ So did terrorist bombings against, Castro’s embassies».
-, ties in Cuba. He worked for Castro, then forthe CLA. alt over’ the ‘world. Then, in 1974, important Cubana -
and then he denounced the C.LA: He has been an anti- started getting. knocked off in gangland-style murders. *°
-“. Castro outlaw since the mid-Sixties, always telling the A lot of groups, including Bosch’s, took eredit for .
Miami Cubans not to ‘trust the [on é <A. in theif war “them. The word wag that C.LA. stooges were being -
.« ‘against Castro. Now most of the hard-line Cubans bé- eliminated. Bosch bécame a phantom, Mysterious fig- °
*. lieve hicw Bosch is the patriarch of Cuban terrorism.” urea with names like Ernesto would pop up ia the Mi- ;
‘-:. > Branch pauises,-then ‘flips briskly through the clip- ami press to speak for him. Here's a Aliami News clip
pings. “Bosch got arrested andindicted pretty regular. from this period. It's headlined ‘Hosch Declares War .
., ly all through the Sixties. He usually got o%. The wit- | on Castro.” Hilda wrote it. She's the last American rer
7 - nesses against him tended to sweat a lot and forget porter to interview Bosch. Shortly after it came out,
C . '' things on the stand, if they even showed up. In gen- Bosch slipped out of the country.” = 2.5
. ~ eral, Bosch had a threefold operation: first, political While Rothchild-studies the clips, Branch continues, ~
7 tervor against Castro sympathizers; second, ordinary “He got arrested in Venezuela about two years aga
".  erimes like extortion from rich people and companies The Justice Department decided not to ask for his re- ~
_ to finance the political terror; and third, ati kinds of " turn to the United States despite all he's weated for.
wars and ‘feuds with his terrorist rivals, Firaily, Bosch That’s weird. Then the Veneznelans turned him loose.

— got-nailed in 1968 for shelling a @ Polish freighter in and he left with a-bunch of Chilean bodyguards and a
- = - big pile of money. I heard all kinds of stories about ~

Tlosch being down in Chile with the Pinochet junta |
” there, bargaining. Now the stories jump to February - a
of last year, when Bosch got arrested in Costa Rica.
_ Yight before Kissinger visited..The rumor is that he.
‘wag plotting to assassinate Kissinger. Bosch got out ”
“of Costa Rica ‘soinehow, and pretty soon there was-a":
‘secret nfeeting in the Dominican Republic of all the ~
major Cuban terrorist: groups, which the Dominicans ~
- allowed; of course. There 1 was a negotiated truce, and
. the terrorists united unde? Bosch in an umbrella group |
‘called TORU, supposedly with the “Support of several.
.) juntas’ ‘in Latin America." --"- es . ze
®Now in the last month there haa been the. Letelier:
3° murder,” Branch continues grimly. “The terrorists
4 showed that they were not sfraid to kill ia the United.
. States, right-in the capital. They have even thréstened —
. to kill one of the-F.RE. agents on the Letelier case.
And his fiancée. The anonymous threats show they -
“have collected a lot of intelligence about the agent's | *
life. The F.B.L. is upset. Then, two weeks after Letelier
‘was killed, terrorists blew sp a Cuban plane near Rar- :!
.bados, killing seventy-three people. Castro blame! the ©
CALA, and canceled the satrskyjacking treaty. The ~
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mead at each other. Then Basch got ear. al in Vene-
snela again, along with a whole bunch of Cuban exiles,
Stories have Been seeping out in the Venezuelan press
Nnking Kosch with both Letel:er and the Cutan plane.
{ I picked up similar stories in Miazni, My sources there

tell me the Cubana in jail are almost Vil formar CL AL -

men, 2.5.1 informants and a few veterans of the Ven-
ezuvian secret police, the DISTP. Some people say
nist? has tortured the hell cut of these guys, bat
her peopla say DISIP Is in bed with them—holding
theas under protective custody till the heat blowy over.
Te’s the biggest damn mess you ever say.”
a ae errs 3
: “You folks wouldn™ t mind telling | me who you are and’
what you're up ta, would you?" =: .
Rotkchild amd Branch look up at the man standing
. in the aisle. He wears a leisure suit with a flashy shirt |
~ opened to his sternum, showing a Tok of tan and some |
tifted chest hair. © .+

1 “Well.” says Branch, “I'm ‘not | sure. “What are “you~ .
‘doing? We're just thinking about  Facetracks and Cu- * they want to talk.to us?” -

bans and stuff like that.” - at. woe
"Corse on now. You can téll ime,” the man urges,
“Don't tell him anything,” says Hilda Inclaa from
behind. She is laughing as if it were a + game, but her
eres signala warning. - .. + wee

: 7. Branch is way off-balance. “I'L take the fifth. tay"

apr

“don't we start with you?”

- "Okay,'Yaays the man, smiling. “rn piay it your way.)

fiend: My name’s George Yoss, I'm an assistant
state's attorney out of Miami.” He flashes an ID card.

nch and Kothchild can’t believe it. He seems more

1 lixe a condominium salesman who wishes he could ba a
gof pro. “{s that right, Hilda?” Branch asks. .
°Yeah, but he’s being a bad boy tonight,” she re-

+ plies | “Tell, h ind his own business, whatever

_ that is.” i ‘

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> “Okay says Yoss, “f'm going io give yeu one more y

“cbance. Lk know you" reo Journalist Why don't we start

a, Branch looks down “and” ‘notices that his hands have -
lheea’ covering up ‘the news clippings unconsciously,
“These gave mé away, . teh?” he says weakly. “I'll tell

ate give me the name of your. hotel and Ill call you
yget our feet on the ground? We can talk this

: is a strange’ country and you guys could- find yourselves |
» on the next pline out ll give you one more chance.”
“E think I'l lay low for the moment,” . Branch’ says: -
-Yoas makes a few more thrusts, then saunters ‘off. -

. the sly,” Beaoch says. “That sure didn’t work out. This
. filgtt's Nike a goddamn convention! Tell’ me; “Hilda,”
Nose of the Cuban cops is named Rat! Dias, I hope?”
;+.°Phat’s Dinz right behind you,” she replies. 7
220% shit!” says Branch, He turns slowly ia his seat
“and-Snds himself _ataring at one of the’ handsome

wheees .

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ce“What makes you think we can gel into the prison {o ,

a ‘tough spot. The Castro government wants him, and

‘down here personally. He's a Cuban named Ricardo ~

syed what You've got ma a ‘Tittle paranoid. Why don’ t know what he's doing now, but he might be a grod

Sista, He is still kidding, but there is an edge to it.

~. -*Y ‘ca may need me down here. You never know. This _
makes fun of all-the people who do. Ricardo f aa old

. operator, even though he’s only in his Jate thirties. He

 eMaybe I was too set on getting into ‘the country on .
“cathe an FLL. informant. He's. the guy wha got Basch

=" loose. Morales’ cdr was diown up. He survived Sut —

v.47, He's a survivor i( there ever was one.”
“So he must hate Rosch, then,” says Rothehild,

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“And you're Radi.” bre mn gives him a Emp hand-
shake and stumps gown in his seat Hilda Insan shakes dj
her head and walks off.” : :

“Who's Raul?” asks Rothehila. ;

“He's Rolando Martinez’ son-in-law, One of the Wa-
terctte Sey Depiat ait of Lime with him ia Miami.” 4

“What's so had about that?” asks Rothch:ic. . “ 4

“I don't know, H's just that he probably hoows who i
my. Cubsn contacts are, antl I don’t know what the hell”
he's up ts. You see, sanic cf the people who have been
telling me about the terrorists are right-wingers ond a

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*. thing except the Letelier murder, but I think it would - i
be healthy for us if we could keep the two groups, u

of incognita.” Aas
“You're doing great 30 far,” Rothchild Say. His .
mind has been wandering over the -Rosch briefing.

see Bosch and his friends?” he asks. “And why. would

Stake yee

- “Its a long shot,” Branch answers. “But Bosch £ isin”

> Bosch knows that would mean curtains for him. He
- also knows that he could get killed any day in Vene~
-'zuela by either his friends or his enemies. He may fig=
-ure that-his best chance to survive is to come ta the,
". United States. What we hope ja that he wants t> get"
" some of his story out in the American press ty feree
the government lo turn the screws and get him back in
the States. That's what I hear from some of our Vene- _
zuelan contacts. I don't know if it’s true, but they are |
- pretty high up. Now even if we can't talk to Bases and
‘the other prisoners directly, we might get stut jadi”
rectly from the Venezuelans.” ca
- “What happens if alt the Venezuelan contacts ‘te
‘out to be flaky?” tne roa
* “Then we'll just have tor poke e around,” 7° says Branch.’
““T have a lot of names. There's only one guy 1 know -

-" Morales. I interviewed him back in 1974, just before
_ he came to- Venezuela. People in Miami tell me he's *
“Avay up high “ia the DISIP, the secret police. ‘I don't

"fallback if nothing clsé works out.” 7°
; Rothchild is encdaraged. At least’ ‘Branch, kn

reat person. “What's he like?" “20 Yoo :
“He's ‘one of the most cynical people I've" ever. met,
” Branch replies, “but I liked him anyway. He doesn't -

“have any illusions about the business he’s in, and he ©

orked for Castro's secret police. Then he worked far-
he C.LA. as an explosives expert. He fought for tt
_ Agency ii in the Cango in the mid-Sixtiés, and then be

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~ In cotirt with eversthing on tape. Then all hell broxe

‘bh amed Nosch for, trying to kill him. Morales himself
was indicted for first-degree murder, but he Set ot.

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like Rosch and Morales have tried hand
encug’ to kill each ether.” Branch hesie
, fates and then decides net to tell Hoth.
child that sume of the old CLA, Cubans
in Miami believe Lusch and Morales
have patched things up. Branch does not
believe it and it would inske things too
gnarled, “It's amazing that the Venssue
lans woul havea guy dike Morales high
up in their security apparatus,” he says
absentmindally?~1 mean he'a a Cuban,
and he haa worked fur Castro, the C.LA.,
and the F.B.0, and he's a veteran ft
gangland-type warfare, It's Hike finding
a West German high up in tha CLA, and
then discovering that he has also worked
for the KGU and the Shah of fran, But
from what I hear, that’s a pretty com-

cmon background to have down here. af

» There are Cubans all over Latin Amat-
- tea”
Branch besins packing up the news
- “clips. “f'm paranoid as hell about this
. » plane,’ * he says. “We're suppoced to get
-a'call at the hotel around midnight. .
*. That ‘gives us an bour to get through
“customs and_ get settled. I want to
V hustle away from ‘these ‘Buys aed. make

{sure we’ re on time.”
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“A Greeting from Rémulo
, Rothchild and Incién notica a huddle
. ‘of shady five-footers lurking In a dark
‘corner beside tho airport entrance,
~ They must be o Venezuelan tour group,
_ Rothchild thinks, waiting for a burgain
* Aight out of the country, I'm net going
. to get paranoid about-everythiny I see.
«But the group stares at the pasaen-
. gers; their suits blend so well into the
shadows that all you see are their mir-
- tor sunglasses. They look like s dis-
‘play of Foster Grants at the back of
an untighted drugstore. . .
Vv They stop lovking only” whoa “tke
* Miami assistant state's attornesa and
cops; the sama ones who have been :

: _ bugging Branch on the plane, go over |

-alid give some of the men in the shad-
‘ows warm, Latin’ embraces. fnclan

: thinks it is a meeting between the di-

. Fam. Jaw-enforéement contingent and

. the Venezuelan ‘secret “police, She
*. éatches up fn the line and. say3.sha has

(

/ += recognized one of the people in the po-

“Vice “huddle as Ricardo Morales, th:

“mysterious Cuban who is supposed to~

“be Branch's fallback contact in. Cara- -
_-€83, Branch is stunned. First he is read- ©
ing clips about Cubans and ceps,: and
rthe Cubans snd cops start fingering
‘Shim on tho airplane. Now Morales.

. “Give me your papers. and follow

Tme!" & Toice dooms suddenly, It be
‘Tongs tos man in o turtleneck sweater
“ond leather jacket. A flunky moves next
to each reporter in the line, There Ie

. hothing to do but hand over the pas»
* ports and follow.

-- Turtleneck and his gag herd the te
porters into 9 special room at the back
of the sirport. He disappears irite an-
othes oitice, leaving them alone with an
olf ran seatal behind a desk, Thera
- $s furious typing coming from the adja.
fent teor) fate which Turtieneck has
disappeared. Ms Aunkies keep ronnlng -

back and forth from one scum ta the
other.

Ta about ten minules, Turtlene-k roe
turns and hamds each of the reporters a
citacidn—on tripheate, Rothchild, trans-
lating for Branch, doesn’t remember
the lepal definition of the word cita.
cidn, He dors, however, recognize a
word farther down in the docu:wnt—
edserl, Caccel means fail The reporters
are being sammoned to atiend some
hind of inecting In a sinister-sounding
room, D-034, in a building somewhere
in Caracns at nine asm. the following
day. The letterhead belunzs to DISIP.

Turtleneck keeps saying it ia all rou-
tine—just siga the c.faciun and every
boy can get a good night's sleep. While

- Rothchild struggles to understand the

fine print, Inclin tells him she thinks it
might be a mistake to acknowledge the

‘stimmons, It mizht conceivably be con-
-strued as an admission of something,
- and the reporters don’t know what it is

-for, Inclin devides to try an offensive

to get information, She whips out her.
“ notebook as if to write a traffic ticket

ond asks Turtleneck what his name is.

_ He dcesn't answer. She repeats the

question and. finally he mumbles, “Ine

* spector Romulo,” 1

“That's all there is to it?”

“Yeah. Just Romulo.”

“Who ordered you to do this?”

“{ don’t know, I can’t say, It's fust a
procedure.” o

“Why is this happening to us?”

“Jt is so because it is so,”

Inclin writes that down,

Beanch, whose rudimentary knowl.
edge of Spanish often led him to offend
the Cuban community in Miami—swhere
he would mean to say “ivhat a grand
wedding this is” and end up saying
“what tremendous tits you Save’—is
getting a headache trying to keep up

Uwith the conversation.“ “Isn't there,
‘ somebody who speaks English here?” -
* he keeps‘asking.

“+> “That's all’ right,” says Rothchild,
“The guy isn’t saying a damn thing in .,
‘Spanish, either.” Inclan agrees. ° -

* The reporters get nowhere. Police

- keep’ circling, .and an evasive Rémulo

Keeps cracking his knuckles, pacing
Back and forth oetween rooms, thrust-

ing pens into the reporters’ hands hike .
“over his head. “I think we are in more

‘8 door-to-door calesmau pushing maga-
izide subscriptions, Inclan asks him if
“they will go to jail for’ not signing.
Romulo says, “No, you won't go ta jail
-for that, and I don't care what you do,
” My orders were to hand you this cei

tacién, and that Ihave ‘dofe. The rest.

is entirely.up to you.”

Inclin decides te accept the summons
but not to sign it, based on Rémulo's
assertion that it ‘rémains in. force no
mattéé¢ what. Brinch and Rothebild go

along after » brief huddle. Rémulo js
definitely peeved. He hands. each of
them a summons in an envelope and
tells them to leave.

“I don’t understand how they picked
us out,” says Inclan ja the cab, “Es
pecially you, John. You're not even
coming as 8 reporter. They couldn't

+
or .ogical explanation [a that some-

ons on the plane tipped off the Vere
auelans. But why?

Eranch thrashea areuad in hia spy
world for answers, Nothing seems to
fit, The theee of then thevrize all the
way ta the hotel, and they can only
aetllo, hike Alexander Haig, on a sinis-
ter force, Uranch is stili sure that the
summens wil be Infied ay scon.as he
can talk te his friendly contacts In
Veneruela, Kothchild keeps looking out
the window for a tail,

A Visit to a Small Motel

The taxi drops them off ut the Anauco
Hiltcn, where Inct.in is staying. Branch
offers to carry Inclin's bags. The lobby,
amazingly, is filled with the same
DISIP lu.kers; they have managed to
move their whote scene intact. They
nre leaning ayainst walls and sitting
on the couches. Branch lovks towanl
the elevator in time to see the Miami .
alterneys and cops scurrying to get in-
side, frantically pushing buttons to get

“the door to close. They are as jittery |

- figure out why he's doing it. He sure

about seeing the reporters as the re
porters are about seeing the Venezue-
lan goons, And the most jittery of ‘all,
in the saiddle of the elevator, is Ricar-
do Morales himself. Morales is staring

. Ht the ceiling, trying to avoid eye con-
. tact, and Branch has the feeling that

Morales is scared, lt is the first time
ho hes seen fear on the face of this
hardened veteran of Congo wars and
Castro plots and murders, Seeing

. Morales scared makes Branch seared,

He warns Inclaa not to so anywhere or

arrives at his hotel, the Avila,

Back in a tad Branch is going
througa another run of Cuban polities.
“J don’t know, John,” he says. “Maybe
Morales is behind all this, but I can’t

do anything—Jjust to call him when he |

looked as if he’s in troudle. He could
havé been making some secret deal with
those cops. Something he knows adout
one of these bombings in Miami.
Morales might not hnow that we were
on the flight by accident. He. might

think we were tailing the cops.”

Rothchild is tryin. not to listen, The

‘only, sure contact ke thought Branch |

had has suddenly turned into a poten- {
tial enemy, Rothchild is petrified by j
the thought that Braach bas gotten in

trouble,” he says. “Look behind you."
‘This time there’ isa tail The other
ear is right on their buriper as they
wind up the back streets of Caracas,
“They aren't eveo pretending not to be
following,” Rothchild says, “I don't

. think that’s a good sign.’*

Brarich, overtthelmed, keeps looking
at the car behind them. “You know,”
he says with a smile, “this is the first
time I've ever been tailed.” Rothchihl
feels as ff he is being cranked through |
the roller of Graham Greene's type |

- writer.

vhave gotten us of our documents. " The

They reach the Hotet Avila, a Casa-
Ddlanca-type place at the top ot wohl, |
It ceems deserted uati! Kothehitd looks:

down from-a balcony near their room. ;
There are people pulling into the drive. i
way. ja small ar, wad they have i

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Walkietalaies and revolver hulgee at
the wauts uf thelr plain dark’ suits,
They station themselves around the
hotel entrance and oven an the flower
bela. They have the place surrounded.
There hava been no -phone calls—or

at Teast that is the worl from the desk.
Branch paces nervously around the
toom, He thinks that something he al-
ready haovws about C.L.A, Cubans and
terrorisr: must bo the key to what's
happening, but he doesn't kaow what it
is, He tes everything he knows to
Rothchild, going ell the way back

* theough Prio and the preCastro stu.

- deat movement. Rothchild — thinks
~ Branch has lost his mind. It is fear, he
Ssures, Branch realizes that Rothchild
- ts Iving down on the bad pretending not
to be awake, that he has fallen into a

Then a call t comes through, but itis not
he contact Hranch awaits. It‘ts Taclan,
who has been denied a room at the Hil-

; ~toa (oven though she had a reserva.

tion) and she can't reach anybody at
the U.S, Embassy. She wonders what
the hell is going -on. Branch tells her
the situatiug at the Avils, but she de~
3+ cides to come over; there, ate. lots of
~ rooms and at least the reporters can
> show some solidarity. >
It takes a long time, too lony, for
Inclin to show up. Branch wanders
downstairs; Rothchild ‘waits by the
** phone for calls that never come. There
is &n uproar at the desk. The clerk is
telling Inclan there are no rodms avail-
. able even though the bank of keys is
behind him in full viaw. He holds chat
position for about five minutes;
retreats to “there is some problem with
you people, Tean’t give you a roum.”

He sezma scared, Everybody. seems. -

‘. "geared, ‘Denying % woman a room at
* threes am. in Venezuela is a serious
": violation of the chivalrié cate. The -

> stupor. It is fear, Branch figures, . ad
‘" guelans a chance to arrest them under

then--

Nem ia the lobby at al} tlines, Inclin
ecides she will sleep on a couch in the
Inbby, and ashe wonders if she should
gutoon ker nighticown fos the puons
Sho sets ber bags beside one couch,
and the belihop ditects her over to an
Bets one wis a gracious flourish: ae
could have been opening tne door to
the wedding suite.

After vaanly scouring the lubby for
pay phones, the reporters uxiee that
they have to make a more for the room
so they can talk near a phone, The
three make their way up the stairs like
Cary Grant tiptering between bed-
rooms. To their relief, no one stops
Inclaa,

Branch offers Inclan his bed, saying
he will sleep on the floor. Rothchild
doesn’t say anything, but Lis paranoia
tells him it is foolish to give the Vene

the pretext of immoral conduct, Roth-
child keeps opening the door because
of his paranoia; Branch keeps closing

sit because of his. He doesn’t want to be”

listened in on, Branch and Rothchild
are not communicating much with each
other by new. Each is worried that

: whatever he says the other nill think it

is crazy, .
Inchin tries to phone her editor fn
Miami, but it becomes clear after about

“an hour of excuses that the desk clerk

isn’t going to put through her call.
Local lines still seem to- be availzble,
but whom to call? Branch has his list
of connectivas, but these people are in
their own ‘delicate situatiuns and
Branch doesn't want to blow their cov-
ers by calling at four a.m. on what is

-eertainly a tapped line. Incl.in can’t gece

an answer atthe U.S. Embassy. Roth:
child has nobody to call, and that iy one
of his /prodlems, Since he is so uri-
connected with the story, he is sure
that the police will figure he is the
heavy—a deep-cover C.LA. man out of

‘three reporters talk. about it, but they - retirement from the Everglades,

~ ¢aa’t sit down or move around without
™ being followed, almost mimicked, by.

a Cops. ‘There are now at feast six” af .

By elimination, the reporters can
- think of only one person in Venezuela
that they could ‘tontact, Inchin’ has

fy 4 out, from her
As wo Hinton, what Avor Ricardo
Morales is ataying oa od she thinta
tha koows what his roam number fs.
Nez plan is to call him dicectly. It is
clearly a desperstien move. Inchan
tings up Morales at-the Ansscoe Hilton,
ppolugives for the hour and heyins to
explain her precicanest, Sut it is clear
things are net guing weil, Morstes ap-
parently is denying that he js Morales,
“You aren't Rica.do Murales?’ Inclan
asks incredulously. "You know me and
I know you. I tatzed to your nephew
in Miami yesterday. Has family is fine
and bs sends his warmest vevards,”
There is » pause ard Incidn begins
to scund Kxe a panelist on What's My
Line?, “You've never heard of a Blo-
tales? Who are you then? Your voice
sourda familiar. You're not a Venezue-

‘Yan. You sound Cubsa, Are you a

Cuban?” Morales says he 13 tired of

beings interrupted in his-sleep; he hangs

ip the phone, - +
An air of resignation has’ settled

over the room. It is almost morning ~

and the goons are still stand.az by the

bushes. The reporters ave under soins .
Kind of .house osrest’ and they feel |
caged, ‘Chey wonder why Morales has *

‘just denied beiry himself. Maybe all

'

this is Happening because they know
who he fs and Morales fears they will
ruin his cover identity. Or maybe

Morales doesn’t want Branch to reveal -

his background to anybedy in Vene-
zuela, The reporters kick this notion
around, but it doesn’t fit. 1 seems pre-

posterous thot the Venezueltansa don’t -

know about Borales’ previous lives,
which are talked about all the time in
the Miar:ai rumor mill.

Branch paces. around the room, trys
ing-to make: kis mind-catch up sith his
fears, He even asks. Iriclan-whether she
is guarding some secret’ that might

. have caused the troudic, Inclan says‘no

and politely doesn’t return the ovestion.
The reportecs already trust each other

‘instinctively, but the spy world threat- +
ens to swallow them up, too. They dee “

leep on her couch. Braneb tells Poth.
child the rumor about the rafpreche-
‘ment between Morales and Bosch, say:

ing he'd even. heard Bosch had been :

staying’ in Morales’ apartment. But it
doesn’t make any- sense. Nothing does.

* Branch babbles on until be finally runs

out of nervous energy. “Well, John,”

he says, smiling thinly as be sinks onte -.

the bed, “{ was right about one thin:
I told you it woulda’t bea boring wee

Morales Takes Over

visit ts the -

“It fa five-thirty am. and somebody Ia -]
pounding on the decor. Rothehild, a light |
steeper, Jumps out of bed. He opens the - i]
door Just a crack, and thea-the door is -
thrown back so hard it benga against - id
the wall like a gunshet A man in ao -
green suit with a long oalkietatkio - 4
hanging from his bett bursts past Roth- °

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“Pack ("he pets Un half a secoml he fs
ali the way acrows the room, “Pack!*
Branch sits op eteaizht in bed amt fa
the most plaintive voice Rothebild has
ever beard him Use, a mixture of recog.
nition, terror, disappointment, confue
{ sion and pleading, says Just one word:
qv

}

“Ricardo?”

It is Morales all ‘sight. Hranch
watches him snatch back tho curtains
to check the balcony, then dact around
the chairs, “Pack! There is a rhythm
to his order. He is maving The a eat,
frenzied but in total contrel, Rothchilt
feela the enerxy coming off him in
waves, He sips into the bathroom to
piss just to get away from Morales,
but he is so scared that nothing comes,

More orders core cut in staccato
bursta—"Get those bays closed! Give
me your passports! Give me your air-
line tickets!" Branch ard Rothchild
are convinced that he wants to destroy
the documents befora ‘he kills them.
Morales leaves the room within -two
minutes, but his performance leaves so
much afterlife that Rothchild and
“Branch don't do anything once he has
left, They don't call. anybody, they don’t
> «sneak off the balcony; ‘they don’t even

say a word to each other.

eee

Lie Both of them jump off the floor when”

‘"S the phone rings, then look dumbly at
each other, Branch picks up the re-

_ ceiver, grunts, and puts it down. “All
the guy said was, ‘He is waiting,” he
tells Rothchild. Hranch’s own voice
“sounds far off to him.

Iaclan has had~rough going down. :

stairs, maybe rougher than the other
two Because she ig alone and also be-
cause shé is not yet a U.S. citizen.
. Morales wahes her. up with the same
' staccato commands. She thinks maybe
i. he is going to take her away and have
i her deported back to Havana. She js so
seared that she Jocks herself in .the
‘ bathroom and doesn’t. come out until
she hears the other two repo:ters stum-
bling downstairs with their bags,

Morales twists the knife with a little

humiliation. “Pay your Dill!” he yells.
Branch doesn’t think he should have to

pay for the hospitality he has received, :

_ but he pulls out "his wallet without a
Second’s , Fiesitation, “Pick up your

bags! | Let's got” The reporters’ are’ -

hustled out of the lobby, past ® aquad-

ron of sunglasses, Morales is already
. cahead of thei ; barking. orders on-his_

walkietalkie, Te is still dark.

The reporters are put into the back -

- of a car. Morales and a driver are up
front, Nobedy is talking much. Branch
_ | is wearing his‘ bes i
‘not Femember put
rales’ brutal prodding. Now ho thinks
maybe something deep in his uncon-

-acious had ordered him to-look his best ~

Rothchild is terrified that they are
traveling In a private car instead of
_ an official police car. His fear of being
‘officially detained is rapidiy. being re-
placed by a fear of being unofficially
| bumped off. He keeps looking back at
the car full of goons that is following
close behind as they careen down the
mountain at one hundred twenty ki-
lumeters anbour, - .. eee
. {The ear ts heading out of town now,

: valent cS

tee,
tthe populated areas and into those Crs

sits where raecutians aml accidents
take place, Branch ia desperately trys
ing toy make contact with Murales. He
mentions sane peeple from Miami wat
he and Morales had once Satheld ta to-
ether, But every tine Eranch diopa a
tame, Morales tutos the volume up on
the radi. He leaves it that way, bar
ing, until the questioner gives up aul
Bits bach in his seat. But desperation
ereates another question, ancther try,
which ends in another mambe bast
Branch gives up on the name-diopping
and even tries some spy-world sult
production, “Rip would not hie what
you are doing to us,” he aays. “Kip
would be ashamed.” Rip Robertson was
Moraies’ gun-toting case officer in the
Congo operations, Rothchild thinks ~

Branch is foulish to bring up the Congo «

and remind Morales how tittle he cares
for human Isfe, Morales says nothing.
He just, gives the radio knob anvther |
twist ~~.
. Inclan ts taking the- personal route
again, talking ‘about this nephew she
has ‘seen, mentioning ‘other relatives of
Morales who live in Miawi. Morales
isn't answering her, either. He is get-
- ting tired. of the radio. Now he just
~ deans. his” head over against the door to
set some steep.- Watching Morales-nod,
the fury turned off- like a ‘Tight, .
Branch’s mind is filled with memortes:-
of Miami Cubans telling stories of
legendary agents who would drop off
to sleep just before landing in Cuba on
a CLA. commando raid, He never quite
“believed the stories, hut he thinks
Morales’ nap is very effective theater,
Rothchild is also watching the nap,
Every time Morales neds, Rothchild
thinks he is ducking so that the bullets
from the car behind won't hit him,
Rothchild ducks, too.
‘After about twenty minutes of driv. |
ing, the road flattens out and the re-
porters can see the airport in the dis-
tance, Morales mentioned “nirport”
once back in the hotel lobby, but the
" reporters were never suré he intended
‘to take them there. If he were just.
planning to expel them,-it would seem"

* whether they will ever r get ‘ef
find en. what it in Nobuty, after all,
Lnows nPere the reporters ace, and the
only thing ua thers side, besiies some
vesticral compassion that might reaite

-pomewhere even in goons, is the rense

that world opinion would be on Mo-
Shark if they did net tortured or

,
b.
opinion Was on the terrurists' backs
about the Cuban airline crash and
nbuvt Letcher and Mothet, They killed
them anyway, They didn’t give a damn,

The car pulls up at the airport. It is
less than eisht hours since the report-
era catered the country, and they have
tatked to nobody ecaxcept Morales, the
goons and each other. Their best guess
is that Morales plang to heop it that

Breakfast at Ricardo's . *
Morales marches the grcup through
part of the sirport lobby and then up
some back stairs, past the meteorolozy
room and into the tower section. They
arrive at a locked, knobless door with
a small pass-through window, and
Morales has to knock béfore it is
opened. from tho inside. They have
arrived at the goon control center,
There is a four-drawer cabinet where
“the DISIP ‘police file their guns and
bullet clips like memos. There is an
‘Old -couch,-a. few desks, and in an ad-
joining room some bunk- beds. All the
people from the night shift are still
there, including Romulo, in the same
turtleneck and the same Jeather jacket, |
The most impressive new lurker is a

, character they call “EL Largo,” or “The

_ that he could afford to be more com--

municative, more curious about what
the reporters were doing, moré worried
about the kind of story they might
write about him. But, _Moralés asked,
nd - questions. Rothchild ~ ‘knew from
‘Braneh’s incessant’ briefings. that Mo--
“yales wore a lot-of hats: terrorist ag:
well as, informant, mercenary as ‘well |
as, cop, “bomber as welt a3 representa-

. tive of a government, It might be more.!

paranoia to think he‘ would kill them,
but alt last night's paranoia had come
true. -

The reporters know one thing: they’
have stumbled onto a story that is
big enough and sensitive enough that
top people in the Venezuelan DISIP
‘are interrupting their steep and risk-
ing diplomatic “repr
hell out of them. It isn’t routiné in
, Venezuela, une of the few South Ameri-
“can countries left with any sense of
freedom of the press, There is ‘some.
thing big going on, and the reporters
don't now, (13. they | speed through

Netter ee = 2 te

Leng | One.”

It is clear now that the plan is not
torture, it is deportation, but the re
porters sense that the plan could easily

be changed. Morales is stalking be.
tween rooms, giving ‘orders and mah-
ing calls, and when he looks at the re-
porters he seéthes ‘with anger. Jnclin:
and Branch are directing more ques-
tions at him from the couch. He an-,
swers only with contemptuous looks. --

- No one is prepared for What happens
next. Morales walks out with a wide
grin on his face. He clasps hia hands:
together like a waiter and cheerfully

addresses the reporters: “Is anybody. |
‘hungry? Are you ready for some break< {

“fast?”

fed, But that’s just the ;
4
t

down the maze of corridors. They de-
* cide there is something oriental “about
recent developments, and they are con- 4
vineed Morales could show them. grent
courtesy one moment and yank ont
their. ‘toenails “the next. They follow
Morales down the corridors unti] they
‘come ta a small dining rvom that ap-
pears to be reserved for airport per- |
sonnel, Branch gives fleeting thought |
to the idea of making a scene, but:
he decides Morales would not ‘have,
drought them here unless he controlled;
the ares. Besides, Branch realizes, he: © >
does not have the courage to make a!
scene in front of Morales, who still has :
the reperters nearly paralyzed ; with
‘fright.

Morales lays his big walkie-talkie
down on the table and soaps for ay

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, : -

-_ wef ae gee . ss, cea. cee a .

at wilt you have” he ashe “aw from reality.” Me looks” aft and. “Wel what are ou dning in Veno-
sa pagan, rucla i was killed in Washington

waiter, “W>

uf Tacign-*¥- .
. . ~& see reporters had fguret breakfast we don't think 20," anys Inclin. “1 Morales cemaunds,
was probably a ruse, 60 they think think pow ore.” “Hecause IT think the people who
about foud for the first time, 1¢ is a “No,” says storates, “You are a hune conspired ty bill hint are here. That's

struggle. Hothchiid's stomach fs file! dred miles from reality, and Jo orn aio what my sources say, and it has even
- with embalming fluid. He feel quensy hundred years from reatity., You under- been in home of the Venezuelan news-

looking at the mene. branch ashe only + stand the differonce?”: . papers.”
for coffee and an order of toast, Kuth- “LT don't know what I understand,” Morates looks disgusted. “You

child follows suit, Morales Jouks disap. shouldn't read the newspapers,” he says -
pointed and urges them to eat more | tightly. “They He. And you should in-

heartily fuclin orders eygs and Mo vestigate that murder in Washington

saya Inclan, “TE know something nbvut
you. Taylor says he tathed to you about
your background in Miami and you

tulkhed to him like a fried. He says instead of coming holfw ny around the:

rales looks pleased, He orders a sump-
' tucus breakfast | for himself, It arrives. you were nice and now you are . world”.
promptly. - --- "“L am not nice,” snaps Morales, Branch tries another ‘tack, “T don't.
ees “Well,” he asks grandly, “who do you “You know what I used to dv in Cuba understand what's behind this, Ricardo,
.t. think will win your election, . Carter or = when I was 9 hid? I sent anonymous | You nren’t Jike you were the last time’ .
Ford?” = death wrentha to my friends, All the I saw you, in 1974. Don’t you remem- =
ber? It was at night in Miami Beach,

The reporters "exchange the look, time. Is that nice?”
familiar by now, that signals their | Branch dees not like ‘this subject. or and you brought your girl friend over
. “agreement that- absurdity has reached the faintly homicidal look “he sees be to the house I was staying in. And
uew heights, They mumble offhand an-° fore him. He decides to make another Fotingo Silva was there, And Tamayo .
. . SWers as Morales listens intently. - stab at levity. “Look, Ricatdo,” he says, was there. We talked almost all night °) - .
“You don’t really have much choice,” “I'm upset that pou and your men have about the Congo. Why have you
. ane ---de-yout™ he asks. “E niean, you have kept me from seeing anything about changed? Is there something . - .”
> a two guys who don't have any ideas and ~ the last-game of the Warld Series last _ Branch stops because of what he sees - .

don't have any backbone, right? And night.” ~~ on Morales’ face.
neither one of them can command any- “The World Series; ” ‘he says, his eyes > “You are lying!” he explodes, ‘ay have

ws “thing or stop anything, so it doesn’t opening wide, “Let me tell you about © ‘pever heard of Ricardo Morales! This

make any difference, right? At least the World Series. It is just hike the is the first time I have ever met you,
_— that's” what 1 Bet from Time muga- “world everywhere: the Reds are win- and it is the first time you have met |
zine.” -ing and the Yanks are losing!" Mo- me! Understand? I have never seen |
Ineldn tries to change the subject. rales breaks into laughter. Something you before in my life! 1£ you say dif- . i
She asks Morales about his position in snaps in the reporters and they laugh, ferent you are lying! And, bad things
thé DISIP and gets no response. She too, uncontrollably. Fear floats out of huppen to liars!"
mentions Morales’ nephew, whom she their mouths and they feel belter, Inchin comes to Branch’s rescue. “E
knows in Miami, and Morales parries the: Branch wades in to reestablish con- have seen your picture,” she says, “and |
remark, Suddenly a cloud comes acrosa tact. “Look, Ricardo,” he Says gamely, Vm sure who you are. if you're not |
his face. - ~ “Tcan't help thinking this is some kind = Morales, then what is your name?” 7
“What's the matter with you?” he . , “I don’t answer personal questions,”
demands. “Why aren’t you eating?” Ile 2 Ee tae rant to be straight wth : Morales says, smiling, trying to Touk
~peints down at the dry tuast, which der of Orlando Letelier. That's what [. ShY. “|
Branch and Rothchild have been pick- ., came dawn here for, and I want...” “I think maybe you figure there's a
little spy conspiracy here,” Branch ob- . ale

i

> — - ing at Tike wafilers at Communion, © “He's " ;
- “Aren't yon hungry?” - >” . Washinetnn ey who got blow up i in: serves, stabbing ‘in the dark: “But there
Branch neds yes; Rothehild nods no.” f think L saw thatin Time. » isn’t, John and I are old friends, but
“You tald me you hadn't gotten any ““That’s right. He was blown up right just met Hilda yesterday. She is | /
breakfast, so I-give you breakfast,” ' around’ the corner from my apart. interested in Bosch and his friends be- |
., Morales declares angrily, waving his . ment cause of the bombings in Miami and
arms, “If you are not hungry, you are “, et ** . 1 the Cuban plane. We are interested in
liars! What's the matter with you?” ~ pout. 7 at le) A them because of Letelier. The three of
.. The reporters: are exasperated, “We toe a Tt tus just happened to come. down. here -
: ‘- on the same plane.” ~~

are afraid and confuséd,”. says. Incl:

++ “because nobody will tell us why this is | “Oh, really?” says Morales dubious. .

ly. “I guess you are good friends now.”

happening ‘to us. I'am a reporter like .
all the other reporters down here. 1  E guess we "ve gone through some- .
> want to interview Orlanda Bosch Tike thing together,” says Rothchild. : -
Idid Gnee before..." : - L . . ° “Now you have something in com-
. “Never heard of him,” interrupts : ao mon,” he nods, “feigning tenderness,
- Morales. He gives us an exaggerated eee ee eer “Let's see, what else is there? Have
Ss . oo you all been married?” The reporters

shrug and a quizzical look.
nod. “How about divorced?” The re-

_ : Inclan shakes her head in despair.
a -- .“Oh, come or, You testified against him . porters nod again. “Once?” They nod
a _ Gight years ago in Miami and now he's an again,
the most famous prisoner in Latin - Morales holds up three fingers. “I
x . . America, He's in your jail.” . have been divorced’ three times,” he
“Did. he mnake Tints magazine?” asks says, “after four kids. I haven't” seen |
: Morales. . them in seven years.” This hangs in the
“Yes,” says Branch, air.
“L guess I missed it,” says Moraies, “Do you miss them?” asks Inclén, .
. He pauses, then turna to Inclin. “Yo a . “Not the children,” Morales says
should not be running around asking to -softly. “Just the wives sumetimes, I |
many questions,” he says sternly. “You . don’t miss much. You know I haven't
are a woman, Women should be at Hlept in two years.” The reporters give
home having babieo and making theit each other significant looks, like shrinks
men happy, Nothing else.” attending a primal-therapy session,
ginclan is rutied, “I can work as well “Hf you are going to kick us out of
a4 most other reporters,” she says. the country, you should at least Jet ust
Morales shakes his head vigorously, call our fami}ies,” Inelan saya. “My
“No you can’t, You are a hundned niles j editors are going lo be worried. We ;


cet t

C:

, -

* have appointments’ and those people,
Hion’t have any idea where we are. Why
tan’t you tet us make at hast one
phone call?"

of Morales bas shed his melancholy and

alipped into a new persona, He is

caver, “You'ro right," he saya, “1H call
them. Anyowly you went, Tell me who
your appvintments are with.” Ho pulls
outa penin
is startled by how fast Morales moves
and how fiercely he snaps the point
down, <
- The reporters glance knowingly at
- each other, They share a vision of

s. Morates hauling their contacts down to
2 DIS!P's welcom: 2 wagon, We're not that

. dumb, they think, were >

 Inclan tells Morates to call her editor

‘lat The Miami News, a safe, serious .

call, Mor«es speils out the name letter

by ‘letter as he writes on his napkin -

‘y like a schoolboy taking down his home”

7 deadpans. .

* work.; He is putting a@ snow. He “

looks xt Branch. .

-'as if INL be able to make it this trip,”
Branch says. He's i in the DISIP Pris.
on.” .
The’ reporters giggle, bul Morales
“T-e-1-] ~O-r-1- a-i-d-o

B-o-s-hi,.” °°
“You've spelled Bosch “wrong” says

Inclan, “It's Beo-g-e-h.” * .
“'m sorry,” says Morales,

+ Morales keeps writing. “You are a
. funny one," he says jovially. He looks
up. “Anybody else7”

“Yes,", says Branch,. He has been
: trying to think of one of his contacts
in Venezuela who weuld’ not he vul-
nerable to Morales but whose clout
might impress him, Any name is a risk,
but he decides to take one. , “Tell the
“governor of Caracas thut I won't be .
able to see him. His name is Diego

Arias. Do you know him?" - - .

-- Branch studies Morales for a reac-

“ tion, but there is rione.

” After breskfast, as the procession goes
by a pay phone, Inclin suddenly an-

-nounces; “I'd like ta make one call ‘to

the American Embassy.” She breaks

” step and marches toward it, the first

:: Sign of overt

resistance, Morales
freezes Branch and Rothchild with a-
-malicious glance and walks. with her,
shaking his head. Support goons appeat
irom around corners; They seem re-
* Jaxed. Morales fingers his walkie-talkie. '
* Taclan gets to the phone and starts
fumbling for Venezuelan change and
her phone numbers. Morales leans up
against the wall near the phone. He
Jooks amused. His body seems to twitch

“ Hittle under his suit, as if he might

need some exercise,
Branch and Rothchild keep ‘telling

* themselves that Inclan is making a

futile gesture, but they admire her.
“She's yet more guts than we do,”
_ whispers Rothchild.”

Branch and Rothchild watch her lift
the phone from the cradle, but they
don’t think she has the change or the
-number, She Is nervous, She looks

Morales in the face, which Is probably

ia inistake. He stares at her, shakes his

+ head, and hangs up the phone gently. -

2
rs

ws Mash, Branch blinks. He-

wey,

“Tell Orlando: Bosch it doesn't, look’.

Ar oa eee, Tee
- Aa hour later, Morales suddenly
Mobiizes his entire tice. Samo e? his
men crab the reporters’ suitcases and
- vanish, Others take of for unknown
dextinations, The rest fal! in arcund
the verertere and Morales leads them
briskly out the dvor.

Rothchild figures they have just
enough thine to make the ten am. fight
to Miami thet he had seen posted on a
board some time earlier, He senses an
end coming and feels sone relief, But
when the entourage emerges on the air-
port's main concuurse, Morales turns
toward the exit . into Caracas, not
towurd the planes. te

-“I thought you were putting us on
the plane,” says Branch. “Where are
we paing?” er

— i
“To the other. nirport, ” says Me
rales, His mind is elsewhere. - > >
“What happens if we make a fuss
‘ when you- put us on the plane?” In--
.elin asks, “What then?” * ‘= -
Morales’ face is taut but breaks into
a tour-guide smile. “You will either
“~Jeave Venezuela. nice and - happy,:
or...” He pauses, “Or you will leave
nice anJ happy.” He delivers the last
line with a lilt, as if making a rhyme.
‘he reporters absorb the | menacing
smile and fall silent. - - “-
Several ‘cars screech up to the curb. °
Once loaded, they take off at the usual
torrid pace. Branch feels panie open-
ing trapdoors under his lungs and he
Jeans over to Rothchild. “Holy shit,
John,” he whispers, “I don’t think thera
és wnother airport ii in Caracas,” .
After racing a quarter mile down
the road, the cars turn abruptly into a
parking lot. The reporters are” baffled
‘by the mish and the short-trip but re-
“lieved to be stayitg near the airport,
“They figure they are headed for a
plane from a different. direction, but
Morales leads them ‘thréugh another
‘maze of corridors and into a new hold-
- Ing reom: It has a big waiting area -
with, two rooms partitioned off on the
side. The doors are metal with no.
handles. They lock from both sides.

- Morales vanishes, leaving K3smulo’

and Et Largo ia charge. Rémuolo's
fingertips do push-ups on his desk -

while he looks on, stonefaced. Roth- -

child gets the impression that Romulo
likes to stare at-blank walls more than

~ at people. El Largo, who seems to be a
notch absve Réinulo in the pecking
order, moves into one of the partitioned:
offices and stays almost continuously on
the phone. He reminds the reporters of
his presence from time to time by
loudly sucking phlegm up his long
spiny nose.

After about ten minutes, Branch
starts pacing away from Rémuloa
“Goldamn it,” Branch spurts, “ don’t
think we know enough about Morales
to make him do all this. He’s going to
n lot of trouble to seal us off from
Venezuela, but jit doesn't make sense
that he would do it just because we
know who he is.”

. “Why'not?” asks Inelan. ”

« “Because,” says Rothchild, “what we

Blready Know is going to come out any-

way if he kicks us out cf the country.”
“J think maybe Norales is more

fete Tt

i

we icied atout what we m: recht, find out
if we ever pet out of his clutches, d
says Hranch, “1 think ‘maybe it's the |
fact that ‘this terrorise: is organized
internationally, Hosch moves around on
illegal passports and has fancy fund-
FDISing’ dinners with supposecty respect~
able pecple in lots of countries, He's
supported by at least part of a lot of
governments, And this stu! locks cross
national—-Cubsns killing Chileans and
so forth. Now lock at how Venezuela
fits in, it's kind of an entrepét for ev-
erybody on all sides, The porernment is
in a real pickle. It bas to ect along
with the military juntas that have tak-
en over most of Latin America, and it
zlso has to ect along with Castro, This |
country is filled with left-wing Chilean |
exiles and right-wing Cuban -enles, +
Letelier is buried here, which is a tilt
td the left, but the pecple who helped
conspire to kill him might well be right ~

os mae

"fn the DISIP, which is full of Cubans
like Morales. President Pérez [Carlos

Andrés, of Venervela] has got his own-
little Watergate here, because his own -
government is tangled up with both
the terrorists and the ‘anti-terroyists. ©

’ This whole country is like a tinderbox,

The government is making little ges-‘
tures to both sides, trying to keep the
lid on. *- aoe
“Okay,” Branch continues, “Let's”
assume that Morales is not bootlercing
us out of the country on his own. That ;
seems stupid to me. Let’s assume that }
at Teast the people in the interior
ministry kiow what's going on. And
Jet’s assume they’re afraid we'll get

-into the country and find 2 story that

foes something like INTERNATIONAL
TERRORIST ORGANIZATION HEADQUAR-
TERED IN VENEZUELA. GPERATOES MOST-
LY CUBAN, EXILES “1Td CLA AND FSI TIES,
VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT PLAYING ROTH

-sivEs, And we go on to say that Basch

has brought a lot.of Latin ‘governments
around to his position, which is that it’s
better to trust each othe: than to trust
the C.LA. Now, what I’m saying is that |

* g story like that would realty screw up

the Venezuelaas, especially if it’s fleshed -
out, It's the last thing the government |
here needs right now.”

“So what side 13 Morales on?” asks -
Rothehild. aare 7 Ou

“I thi he’s on both “sides,” says,
Inclan. .

“I think so, 00,” says Braned, “just
like the ‘government. Morales is in the
underworld of both sides.”

Inclin thinks for a moment. “There's i
only, one big. problem,” she says, “If
they're so. afraid of a story, like that,
why do they let’ other reporters stay
‘and just throw us out? Why do they
pick on us?”

“] don’t know,” Branch sighs. “— 7

don’t know much about the correspon-
dents here, They’re getting some’ stuif
out, but my impression is that they

cover nine countries and just fy in for ts

the coups and earthquakes. That still

doesn’t make us so special, But maybe |
we are to Morales. We know him, He
knows Hilda knows a lot about Bosch
and Miami connections. He knows that
1 got pretty deeniv into the CLA.
Cubdans, Then he sees us with the prose i
iT
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cutors, That may have been tvo much
for him ta: take chances with us I
don’t know, Maybe he thinks we're:
CA

Swords on the Runway
El Largo_picks up the three: passports
of Rormslo’s desk and points them
towanl the loched_dour lie a baton.
“Vani,” is allhhe says.”
The mets} door is unlocked by El
ant onte again the DISIP cor-
te,e appeacs from nowhere. They es
cort tie reporters down ajothér stair-
ease and cut toward an immigration
stallin a large rovm that ls coinpletely.
isolated -It is a busy part-of the day‘at
+ a major airport, but the DISIP keeps
. finding these empty halls and’ empty
>, Yooms to stick the reporters in,
Something about approaching this
“immigratoa stall, which is not’ ‘attend-
* ed, and knowing ‘he. will pass through:
“it and get on aa airplane ahd not and -
:  Leteijer’s curderer starts to galvanize
Branch. There is a tiny- Passage te go~
“; through and: El Largo ‘is anctioning
“them: to walk on, but Branch is haying:
hesé visions of ‘the bombed ‘car outside ~
nis, apartment and he. is getting mad.
we The msdderrhe gets, the -slower he
+ ne Twslks, “We can’t just get. on this
. : > plane,” Ee says to Kothchild, “We have -
foe “to af least:do something.” He and Roth-
”- child, and. then Inclan. behind ‘them, g0-
*_ into a-stall ta complete stop, but
they are slowiig ‘it way down, Moraies
might have’ clamped down on this little
_ insurreetion in 2 second, But Eb Largo.

‘ : seems tuérely. agitated. He is getting in.

. - front of the reporters, pleading and
ves . 0) begging, pulling with his arms as if
* they are all eonttected by an invisible.

ae. 7 YOpe,

a vo In -compleie “exasperation, | he staita
Sputtering threats, “If you don’t move
through here, I am going to use ihe
forest!” Two | ‘guards go running down
tothe erd ef the room, apparently to go

and paratreoper boots. |

= Out of 's pictur window the. report.
ra. can See the plane being. gassed up.

aa ‘not Pan Aim. Inclan, finally ‘ex-
réssing some , ‘paranoia herself, Says,

- lane, But they wouldn't sac!
Venezuelan plan They don't: have that’
many of trem: "-,

thee ¢aa see the busloads. of tourists »
being ‘Aushed back cut from their vaca-
tions, The buses ara stopping at the
‘ back stairway of the plane. Then
. . Branch ftets his idea, “In here where
‘there is nobody to see us we can't do
much,” he tells Rothchild, “But out
“there, in front of all those tourists, we-
can get sone help Let's hall Rothchild

te
re oar rr

Tee ene teens

find the forte, which turns out to: be -
four young seldiers in green fatignes .

is VIASA, the Venezuelan airline,

and Branch baddie with Inclan. They
sh the plan ond agree, Then all
t.  @ abanlon their shultte, to the sare
prise of the herders, who have been
pushing all alung, Suddenty they see

‘their quarry running o:f in front of

therm. El Larco doesn’t catch on right
away, but he knows that ohatever the
reporters want to do, it must be thy
wrong thing. Sovhe starts running after
them, yelling. “Stop! Branch and
Rothchild h:t the double silass door with
Inclan ant EF} Largo and the acmy just
behind. They a3! pour out onto the run-
way to the curious looky -of hundreds
who arelined upto Jeet on the plane.
For the first: time since they landed.
in V. ‘enevuela, Inclén is visibly upset.
She Tashes out to the line of passen-
gers, screaming: in Spanish and English
that she is a woman reporter whose
dignity kas: been trampled on by the
secret-police. The polite,” who Are mass ©
ing Behind’her th greater wun
ever before, don't know ow to
- deal with. ‘this, ‘The’ pass don't
know whetherto Becept he: as a-lunatic -
traveler’ whom they don't want with:
them. on the plane; or. to bélieve, what.
she is saying, which’ would be unpleas-
ant, Most of them pretend that nothing
is. happening: and ¢o on up the ramp. "
Branch, ‘nieanwhile, has planted hini-
self on the stairs that lead to the front
cabin of the plane."He is sitting down
and his hands are clenched to the rails
like a Quahér chained to the White

House fence, Rothchild is sitting on the
steps just below Branch, and ‘they are- L

being’ surrounded by a brigade of reine:
forceméents; the sword’. company, Tlie
men in -brown uniforms have circled
them, and they pull the swords a few

ano ot
the pear ale Behind them officials and”
police seem to be pouring out of the
doors ‘and official jeeps are screeching

ff, and Romulo has

The captain of-the aizplane, | a Vene-
aublan, comes down the same rarap on.

a which Branch and Rothchild. have been |

. bis a eupeine héld up a ee
Bers! fast’ memory of ¥e i

to the huddte of secret police, where the

“etirrent brainy of ‘the operation, Rémulo -
and El Largo, are standing: . The cap-

tain Proceeds to chew them out,. tell

- them: that they'are idiots to pull'a show

and that. he’ will: not take: pas -
Idaded by forte: The seciirity risk, “for

‘ene thing. LE these, people ; are that fan: :
gereus, then why should the

be flying

a‘une on his airplane? .-
Et Largo and Rémulo don't quite

‘know how to‘hand!a this sudden obsta- °

cle. They get a let’s-talk-this-one-over-
daddy loox on their faces and go into a
huddle with tke captain. They also de
fer to even higher authority, a beely
eop named Camargo, who is wearing a
short-sleeve shirt. Cantarzo arrives in

abbards ready” + atid e

: ly_line,
notes in and notes out, the DISIP

sand blackjacks.”
. ricans” ‘bp ‘the ramp. “He | .
- steps over Branch and goes - right. down |

- -1@ncoragement. He instantly calls for

- numbers in, his pocket and, as o di-

the mbtile of the acens, looking tike ths
frust I director of a ‘runaway cash .
There .ce now dusens of DISIP men
in plain clothes,-a few repr
from about four different military de-
tachments, frantic jeep drivers, airline
authorities, pilots and Zround-<rew pres
aennel, all crowding around to watch
or take pare in the action. Camaige
looks shy ward, thinking undec pressure,
and gets his idea. “Why don’t you Iet
me go with these people?” he asks the
pilot. “If I take them to Miamf, 1 guar-
antre there won't be any funny Bluff
on your. pisne,” Rothebild thinks this is
& Sits
‘toi
retiirn B 3 »”
pull one-off. theniselves, ,
The pilot doen't think too much of
Camaryro's idea, “Do vou have a U.S.
visi?” he asks Camargo, “No. “Then,
ee you know What ey will do |

’
1

hi
that. sound
the captain re!
The
they have
a theatrical jetory:
at all these car3 and soldiers and dis-
tressed officisis—but they don’t Jike the
prospect uf lunch with Ricardo Morales,
Nobody seenis to be running to call the
American Embassy or ‘any other ont-
side help, so the Blan is a qualified’
 failate:” *
‘The three of them head - back to the:
“passenger ine, where ‘people ‘are- still
loadirig, and start w: 2 phone nuri-
bers on little scraps of “_paper—the Ri
bers, i i

reporters are receivéd in this effort: tike
‘Salvation Army coilectors at the race-
track. Only a few of the passengers ac-
tually take the notes, but just to make
- gure, the DISIP people are picking
them off at the higher end of the line.
+ Some passengers even go out of their
way to hand over ‘the notes with an

- goons collecting just as fast as Inclan,
al ind Rothenild can scrawl. . >

It ‘is- row; with thé oplane about’ to. J
‘close its doors, that Branch comes up
with another plan: send one, leave two,

Branch still is hoping he can break the
Morales ‘logjain. and get out'into friend-
ly territory, where his ‘contacts are
waiting to help him, Inclin speaks the.
+ best Spanish ‘and seems the most adept
wat handling Inspectors and bureaucrats.
They. will stay and ‘Rothchild i is chosen
to leave. Branch reniinds -him, in front
.of thé sword brigade; that he is an “ex-
pectant father,”: but Rothchild needs no

the captain and explains that he-wants
‘to get on the plane. The captain hesi-
tates, then agrees, and Rothchild runs
for the stairs, As he passes Branch and
Inclin, Branch sticks one page of phone

versionary tactic, clumstly sticks anoth-
er note in hid hand, vthia one in full

H
a

hee nee

vy

eee

- «een ta dee ete 2.
*, + cos om sseentecienee

Seaaetd ieee


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view o1 the.cons. As th
-are frisking Rothchild: . iecond ‘note
is triumphantly confiscated. They don't
know chat it says “Joe Morgan” on it
The name 6f the xreat Cine:nnatl seco
end baseman will go somewhere into the
DISEP files,
Nalfway up ithe ramp. Rothehild
eeases trat the pressure has somehow
~ been reversed, that now the DISIP

wants to keep: him on the ground, Sev--_

eral cops are following him as if they
want to get ahead ind step him at the
door. He: seurries inside the plane and

rushes back to's : seat; ‘they ‘are still fol-.
lowing him, He Ka his seat belt-buckled ~

almost before his asahits the “cushion,
and the twa'cops reach out ' ‘as if to grab
- him, - sir minds and
abruptly leave the. sireraft. But they
quickly return, They ‘tell. Rothchild in a

+ Very friendly tone that his - Bra te

ve:

‘: down on the ground. want ‘ta:

- os “word with him and that he better uae

- ‘fat. as the plane entra
the stairs, when he. heai

3 The cops ate 2 not. throcgh yet- They
. return with another ploy: Rothebild has
+ wot filled out the necessary papers and

port. “Are you.sure thia.isa’ +) trick?”

Rothchild asks: “No,-no trick., Just, .°

.@ procedural matter.” Kothchild tells -
them he-isn’t moving an inch until he
talks’ to thé captain,

a cours. --, Out’ his little window, Rothehild sees”

- further agitation‘on the runaway, They

. have -brought up -a car and they are.

on zto farce’ Branch and Inclin to
Lethe get‘ into it, Camargo is failing his. arms
- like a. giant windmill, ‘determined to’ ‘get

. all three reporters together—on or off
the plane. The reporters are equally

~ determined, to split up. Branch and --

Inclin keep telling Camargo that they
will’ not move from the runway until
‘the plane takes off. They want to stay

~ - in plaia view of all, the passengers, -

fearing’ “that the goons will grab Roth,

2 - ot about -how ‘incredible all the

"gre. crouched in the ‘shade, peettibe cig:

. . are spread gut in a semicircle like faus
: - in! the bleachers. wee H

- ticks ‘to get Bri ich and-

“sight, Will they move irito the airport, ‘

please? No. He goes off into a huddle

- . and comes back. Will they get in the
‘ .” car so they can get out of the hot sun?
7 . . No Will they get in the: -cat.if he prom-
"> ises they ‘can watch the plane, from

. .there? No. After one huddlé, ‘the-sn00d

“say @ prayer, refuse to move and wave

_. @stentatiously at the airplane. ‘The
goons shove. and menace but then go off
again, Rémule comes back with his gure
pulled, looking, like a crazed assassin.
Camargo soox yanks him back to the

carriers

he must return to an office in the.air- |

“” eouragini.each other and asking jokes :

_— changes and several goons éwing little
. ’ brown biackjacks. | ‘Branch aid - “Inctin

goon huddle, The plane starts taxiing _

prs Te

m the runway p and | Camarze ay,
~* You've won, Let's ga." The reporters
huddle and say not untl it's off the
fround, Camargo -loois furious and
barks a command to his walkietalhie
man, The plane stops irnmediately and
sits In the middle of the airstrip. Ca-
marge <o..trols the. tover, the reporters
conclude, The gaine, Played by inches
and bluifs, goes o2 for nearly'an hour.

Camargo Plays Hardball Teen .
Branch and Incléa are sprend-engled
axainst the back-doer cpenings of the
goon eas, facing each other, when the
jet finally takes off. They have held this
-position for the last Eiieen- minutes or
80 of the cat-and-mouse.game. The roat
- of the jet engines sets off ‘tremors in
‘Branch’s 's gut, and he is flucded with re-
lief. He feels tears welling upto. oT

“the front seat, Thee feats ff down the
runway with other cars following. °

, “How Jong will it take the plane to
get to Miami? *.Inclin asks Camargo.
““A-little more than ‘three: hours,” says
“It ‘has to SP in Mara-

Camargo.
caibo.” -

+. Branch shivers and “gsks- Incl ta: + certifieate:

translate. the. Spanish to uiake sure he.
heard right.

“I thought you said it was a > direct
ni,” Inclin says. in dis. -

-sepines Camargo, “
Maracaibo.” =~ _
The reporters digeass with renewed
horror the fact that Maracaibo is still
in Venezuela; they envision the DISIP
people paying a call oa Rothchild. Ca-.

\. | Varettes, “and several hundred gawkers -. ~

Rémuio-: vis: snow wearing - “his gua “os

eS Denes a oo

mar grins at them. His tps slant in.

one airection, and the upper row. of his
front tee{h ‘slants in the other, mating

an X. Branch thinks Camargo must -}-

file bis tecth, He inches away from
pamale until he is almost: fa Inelin’s |

Pp.

Three hours later, Camargo summons
the two reporters to his office after
more consultation with Central Ca-
‘pacas.:Only one thing bas changed, he

eeys gracious!y. Both their visas have -
been officiaily revoked; they are ore .

dered to leave at three-thirty, The re-
porters ask why, and Camargo sbrugs.
Without warning, the session is in-
téerrupied | when one of the younger -
gvons stroils in and hands Ci

Lt so
brand-new Jim Paimer baseball glove ~
and a box of-six baseballs, The Teport- .

Se wee Oe

ers‘are astonished” -”

- glove. He is ‘dbeadming: He

alks over toa corner when
_ there is a stack of framed: diplomas ca
the floor. He Rips through them and
hands Branch a diptoma from the U-S.

Army School of Special Warfare. It is -

signed by General Joseph W. Stilwell,
hen he hands’ Branch a:
Internationat Police --
Academy,’ a training school for “the
world’s policemen. It has closed aftér a -
dose of scandal, Branch wonders if all
the DISIP goons have been trained by |
“the Agency; he would like to meet their
American contacts: -- +--+ --

Rothéhild has landed, in Miami: He -

goes straight’ to The Miami Ne
causes an ‘uproar with his ‘stor
editors there lave -béen. wortied .about™

” saya Camargo, . whe -
begins ‘to Pound his fist in the new

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Inclin since shé missed Ner check-in -

call six hours BES. The managing edi- .

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racas nad lifts’it off the ground with
i. The embassy promises ta investi-
Kale immediately. Rothchild begins to
reconsider his views on newspaper edi-
tors, ° :
‘Camargo comes Into the holding room
wearing the louk of a man who has just
accomplished something.
“Your visas have been officially con-
fiscated,” he announces.
The. reporters lock ot him blankly.

“What's new about that?” asks Inelda. .

“You have had them all day.”
“Now they ara permanently confis:
- cated.” says Camargo. He shows them
‘a new Verezuelan.seal stamped oa each
. one, Over ‘the seats, ‘someone has
. scrawled, “Visa fue revocada.”

Before the reporters have time to fig. ,

_ bre ont what this signifies, Camargo
gives the order to move out: He. says the

terialize, .: :
* Ielan -cxplais ns to Branch.
.ia Dig. trouble, Even if Gamargo

_ _ deta, them go, ‘she-says, they coiild be
. stopped ten feet outside the airport-and —
‘ashed for their papers’ They could be
!*.+ slapped ia prison for the “revocnda™ on
: their_passports. For-the first titae. they

’ are not on solid legal ground.- Branch -

shakes his hend wearily and tells Inchin

_ they have lost around of hardball, = - -

tote, follow a triumphant Cémargo

; Phon -
- ‘On’ October 24, two days after the re-
porters left Caracas,” Deputy Interior

Minister Marce Tulio Beunicelli talked :

“with the press to clear up the matter.
Bninicelli.‘said| Hihia Taclan “bad ars
_ rived carrying documents that: “dit .
: conform “with national norms,” and”

- that “she was cordiaily, asked to leave
. the country decauss: itis necessary to
‘comply with ote. laws.” As for ‘Branch

+ and Rothchild, hie declited ‘that they
1, “expressed solidarity: with their col-
he . to Jeave the coun-

nid pant
: Froon, Fock... Something Rave Branch a
= Nei .

ou ne
. opposition from the Agency: ““1f you .
“t don’t help the, good people fight Castro,”
said one old C.LA. Cuban; “then we have
to help the bad ones doit. There's noth-
_- Ing left but terroriim.” Branch, was
* stunned by how rapidly the ant-CLA,
- pro-terrorist: trend: had . progressed in
ever the two yeara since he had left,
*, Miami CLA, loyalists’ were now in very
skort supply. The last. defectors were
. Cubans whose secret historiés stretched
{ back to the Fifties and Sixties, when
their anti-Communist, movement was in
¢ the American mainstream. The CLA.
*. trained the Cubans to work by steaith—

:. to Hie, smuggle weapons, move illegally ..
in and out of countries, make bombs
ete te tLe aoe It

* plang is late. “The goon aquads ma. -

t strike secretly against Castro tare
&. « Some'of them were “oticial” tere
rorists, who would stoically accept lung
jail sentences rather than reveal a
C.LA, secret, Now they were no longer
official.

Rothchild was back home in the Ev-
erglades, On Monday he ceceived the
first of several phone calls from a ran
identifying himself as 3 “consultant to
the government of Venezuela.” He

wantal to give: Rothchild some money,

to write about Rottichild’s background.
Very weird, thought -Rethchild. He be-

gan to worry. that’ his trip to Caracas"

would follow him.

Press-reports from’ Venezuela quoted .

interior ministry offciais in- Venezuela

ying that -Ricardo’ Morales “did
‘not cause the expulsion of the Ameri-
can journalists: ” In-an official state
ment on October 26 the ministry said
Morales “'does not even work for the

was working on the teriorist network.
It came by messenger -and read like
Sherlock Holmes: “The
-things—what ever jt i
, the key tahim'is som
know, It seems that something ‘he once
told you or knows you know will click
with something’ you would be likely to
hear here; or, would reveal ‘something
-. here, that. ‘he didn't want ‘out,

» Branchiwvent to, see Ev;

* the’ assistant U.S. attorney in. "charge .
of the Letelier investigation. ‘Propper .

wanted to know aboat the ‘Veneauela
‘trip because he was thinking of going
. there himself. ‘Che leads pointed there,
he said. He asked questions about the
+ Cuban terrorists. Branch outlined what

‘he knew. He took a: ‘reading of Propper -

* and was satisfied that he wanted badly
to solve the case, Branch ofl erie
that - they were. both.
heads, His worries  Skyrocketed when
Propper asked to see a copy of Ths
_Miami News, which contained articles
“about Morales and the Venezuéla trip.

tha News ‘as, if it were a

Proppen
pléaded. Proppér miade a couple of un-

tice. Department and said he would get

these riéwspapers from the Library of .

Congress as soon a3 possible. * ~
Branch knew what it must be like to
call the police station in the middla of a

robbery and find its’ phone. disconnected.’

He recovered and offered, to do: any-
thing he could fo’ help, ¢ €ven' to 5 go back
to Venezuela. :

“I've only got one major reservation,”
he said, “and that is the informant
problem. You have to rely on the F.B.1.
.and the CLA. to investigate, and the
fact is that most of-the suspects and
likely witnesses are old CLA. and
F.B.L, men of some sort.” -

: into the Agency through tte JLRP;
- before the Bay-of. Pigs. Ask the Agency
what it-has about Posada’s involvement \4~
¥ey to this.

“and Killed in Cuba, Now, if the Agency:

, Successful -phone calls around the Jus- .

“position, then?” -

Pree anid it could he handled.’ Tho
FP. ople on the case would arrival *
their own mothers if they had to. The.
terrorists had threatened to kill an

F.BLL agent. The Ituresu had two hun- -

dred ayents on the case. It was the
biggest thing i, the FULT a

“What about the Agency?” asked
Branch, “Look, J don't think the C,1.A.
had anything to do with these murders,
but the terrorists are weing their old
GLA, connections in more ways than
one. The Agency js in a bind. It has
‘create! a-monster., The whole world of
seercts in Miami has -turned upside

down, But I'll bet those old pros over. :|

at the Agency aren't-about.to sacrifice :

thei? security and secrecy to help solve: qt ,

a murder.”
Propper said he was getting coopers

tion, reams of stuff in fact, Branch - .

asked |him to test it, “Ask thea’ for”

their file on Luis Posada," he said, “I +

know they've got one on him, Me came

with a bootleg sssassinatiun attempt =

against Castro‘in 1965.30
named-Herminio- Diaz. Diaz was caught °

doesn't have enything on that, they're -
just giving you a: lot of smoke.” (Po- 5,
sadi i3 the Cuban-detective from thé

DISIP-now held by the DISIP for the °
+ Cubana de Aviacién bombing.) ;]

Propper agiced, (On a later “visié, =

’ Bropper would -Say- he ways getting q

Agéncy cooperation but declined to give
Braneh'any details.) ‘

On November 4, the State Depart
ment responded to ‘Branch’ '3 request for
a position statement on the Venezuelan
expulsion, which the U.S. Embassy in
Caracas had been iayestigating. A”
State Department representative read a:
portion of a press briefing as follows:

, ‘Q: What. did’ he (Branch)’ say and ;
* ‘What's’ the State Departinent going to:

do about it? ©
A: He described ‘the ‘dealings ‘he and \

two others had with the Venezuelan ”. :

sat Maiquetia Airport when *

. they arrived there. Jast. week. I'm not 2].

‘going to discuss details of what he said,

That would be’ for: shim ta do, i. he :

wishes, ‘Qur. Embassy has‘ ‘expreqsed oa

“frm afra

“Mr, Branch,” she said,

ing that was just read to you does not

constitute the department's public Posie
. tion. Itisa guideline.” oge “

- “What is a guideline?”

“Inds a policy draft setting out what 4

the people. here are authorized to’say in

response to inquiries. What you have~

there is‘ what we would have said had

- we been asked. But it is not what we

have said publicly, We have no record
of being asked on the record, although
some reporters may have inquired pri-
vately, in which case we would have
responded according to the guideline.”
“So what is the State Department's |

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into the affair, he tried to frustrate the plan. Gonzalez also —
said that Morales, supposedly worked for the "CIAin the Congo"
and actually is an agent of the Government of Venezuela, ‘used
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